Something new and fascinating.
And the Blood Moon had only just begun.
Isolde wanted to live her life normally until she had a dream. Isolde had a dream in the fortnight.The dream came after the Blood Moon.
Isolde hadn't been able to sleep since her first shift. The intense burn of the transformation, the weight of the power she'd never believed she had within.She touched it and it lingered in her bones, as if her skin had been opened and closed back in a wrong manner.
"You will get used to it." Kael told Isolde. However he didn't say anything to her-about she have a dream subsequently because he was still in shock.
That fateful night came, she laid on her bed in the corner of her small room, wearing 3 clothes and using 4 blankets that did nothing to stop the cold she was feeling. The walls of her house offered no warmth, and the silence of the village was feeling awkward.
Brinna had stopped checking in as she used to do. Isolde's sudden shift had spread like wildfire, every nook and cranny of the village heard of it and not everyone liked what it meant.
Especially the Betas. The Betas hated this news because it was a threat to them.
Especially the soon to be Luna-Liora, the daughter of the Beta.
Isolde finally slept around three in the morning, still feeling cold and relentless.
She wasn't the type that usually dream. But this time she had a dream.
This dream was not a normal one because It was a dream that took her out of her room. She was standing in a field filled with fog, she was also barefooted, dressed in a thin white shift.
No signs of the moon. The stars weren't where it was supposed to be-the sky. The silence was smelling of bad omen, like a foul smell was released into the atmosphere
She turned around and observed the place. The field looked so deep and wide that she was feeling afraid. The fog moving like living mist. She couldn't just figure it out but she could feel something watching her.
Then she heard it.
A growl!
A low one!
Sounding harsh and agitated. Definitely not of this world.
She turned quickly towards it—and saw it's eyes.
"Silver, Luminous, Piercing darkness like two lamps."
A wolf stepped from the mist-massive, regal, and old. Its fur was white, with streaks of gray like polished steel. It stared at Isolde unblinking with piercing eyes.
Isolde couldn't move.
She felt rooted at the spot. She tried to talk but her voice failed her.
The wolf then backed her unapologetically.
"Child of the blood and moon," a voice echoed. It didn't speak with its mouth. .
"You are watched."
Isolde blinked. "What are you?" The wolf told her it's not necessary rather she should hearken to this words.
"A fragment. A memory. A warning."
"Of what?" Isolde asked.
"Betrayal."
Betrayal!!! Isolde spoke as her face was lit with sudden awe.
Next, images flashed in it—Kael bleeding from his chest, Brinna screaming, the Alpha throne split in two.
"You will be hunted, lied to, loved and broken."
"Why?" Isolde asked feeling bad.
"Because you carry something they do not understand." The wolf replied
"Trust the one who sees your scars."
The wolf stepped closer. Its paws made no sound.
It moved with the wind and whispered into her ears.
Then everything shattered.
She woke up screaming and frightened. As she was trying to remember the dream she noticed the presence of a person.
However, Kael was at her door before dawn.
He didn't ask. He simply stepped inside, sat on the sofa far from her placed towards the wall, and waited until her breathing slowed.
"Did you see anything?," he asked.
She nodded. She spoke fearfully saying "A wolf. Silver eyes. It spoke to me."
His brows raised, his facial expression displaying anger. Finally he said, "The Moonbound."
"What's happening to me, Kael?" Isolde asked?
He gave her no response immediately. Rather, he took her hand and placed something into it.
A pendant. A small silver disk engraved with runes.
"Protection and Proof" he told her.
"Of what?" Isolde asked?
"That you're not dreaming these things. You're being guided." Kael told her.
"Why would anyone guide me? I'm nobody, an Omega" Isolde asked him.
He gave her a stern look and said. "Not anymore."
She swallowed her spit and asked. "What did the wolf mean by betrayal?"
He looked away, sad and gloomy.
That was all the answer she needed.
Later that day, she was summoned to the Alpha Hall for questions and interrogation.
The triplets were waiting.
Dax-Fierce and fast-tempered.
Riven-Quiet and calculating.
And Kael.
Alpha Theron stood at the head of the great chamber-a spot designated for him, his eyes shone like fire and iron. He signalled for Isolde to come forward.
"You shifted during the Blood Moon," he said. "Unexpected. But not without guidance."
She said nothing. She only looked onward.
Dax stepped forward. "There are... rumors."
"About what I saw?" Isolde asked?
"About what you are." Dax finally spoke after the delay.
She narrowed her eyes and asked Dax. "And what am I?"
Ronan spoke with digust . "A mistake."
Kael growled low in his throat.
Theron raised a hand, which signified "Silence"
"We cannot afford division, It's too early" The Alpha said. "And you, girl referring to Isolde, is trying to distract us."
"So what will you do?" she asked. "Kill me?"
Silence filled the chamber.
Then Kael spoke with authority. "She stays but under my watch."
Alpha Theron gaze raised with that look of. "And if she becomes a threat?"
"Then I'll be the first to put it to an end." Kael replied.
Isolde looked at him feeling confused
Because she wasn't sure if it was a promise
Or a warning.
After the meeting with the Alpha. She went home and that night, the dream returned.
But this time, the silver-eyed wolf didn't come alone. It came w
ith others like it.
They were watching from edge of the fog and waiting.
The silver wolf came with an instruction tagged "Choose wisely."
And then it was gone.